Find Yourself Along The Way

The Meeting Places | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 2, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 2, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Words On Music
• ASIN: B00013YQII
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,754 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Mark Barton, Losing Today, July 2003

"A thoroughly captivating collection of bleached out sonic pop symphonies."

"It's back, better than ever. The sound that never went away is a wave that's rising again."

"This CD is perfect for an afternoon nap in the sunbeam coming through your bedroom window."

Product Description

THE MEETING PLACES' debut CD was recorded in Autumn, 2002 by Aaron Espinonza, the heralded musician [Earlimart] and producer [Elliot Smith, The Breeders, Folk Implosion]. While the album's elements and textures evoke the best of the early 1990s dream pop tradition (Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and Ride), singer Chase Harris' inimitable vocal delivery leads the quartet into memorable, unfamiliar sonic territory.

"Freeze Our Stares" launches the album with Scott McDonald's trademark thick, shimmered coatings of guitar resonance. Harris' cool, self-assured vocal melodies on "You Could Never Be the One" and "On Our Own" hint of vintage Jesus and Mary Chain. "See Through You" is a more casual, but no less poignant, excursion into more delicate melodic structures, recalling 'Souvlaki'-era Slowdive. Dean Yoshihara's nimble drumming propels the buoyant "Wide Awake" and ushers "Same Lies As Yesterday" through to its soaring chorus. "Take to the Sun" is a three-act epic suggesting Spiritualized — leading with Harris' distant vocals, transitioning into Arthur Chan's bass-driven middle act, and ending with a noise-laden coda.

'Find Yourself Along The Way' escorts dream pop into its next phase — songs written with flair and tunefulness, enchantingly dressed in an echoed veneer.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent dreamy mood music, February 22, 2006

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Stephen Spencer "Spanker" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Quite removed from modern trends and therfore for people who can look outside of what's fashionable, this is a fantastic piece of dreamy guitar dream pop. Reminiscent of lots of early 90's UK shoegazer pop, its got all the necessasry ingrediants - relaxed vocals, walls of guitar effects and all in all is a superb listen. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best new bands I've heard in a LOOONG time...., February 29, 2004

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This review is from: Find Yourself Along The Way (Audio CD)

Easily one of the best new shoegaze bands I've heard in awhile. For the most part, I find the modern shoegaze scene to be very bland, and uninteresting, especially when compared to bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and alot of the other innovators from the early 90's. This band however, is far from bland. At times their guitar work sounds fairly reminescent of Slowdive, but to compare either band to eachother would be a disservice to both.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Found Sound, February 9, 2011

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No guitars as heavily processed as "Several Girls Galore" or "Soft as Snow" from My Bloody Valentine's "Isn't Anything"(widely considered to be the first proper shoegazing release) appear on The Meeting Place's "Find Yourself Along The Way"; this release is more reminiscent of Slowdive's "Just For a Day" (though more aggressive) or anything from the "Untouched"segment of Secret Shine's recording career. I can also hear hints of (the) Pale Saints, Swallow, and even the JAMC in several places, perhaps due to this band's use of a saturative wash of reverb and delay to create a similar type of expansive sound. The vocalist's earnest, sometimes plaintive delivery occasionally recalls Michael Stipe's distinctive cadence from REM's earliest releases, which came as somewhat of a surprise (though not a distractive one) when the association first came to my attention, and he seems to have taken some trouble with the lyrics. "Now I Know You Will Never Be The One" and "Take To The Sun" are the standout tracks on this release, but every track contributes toward a sense of real cohesion. Having been in my mid-twenties when "Isn't Anything" was released and a long-time fan of the previously listed groups, I can definitely agree with others who have reviewed this CD that The Meeting Places have done more than just derivatively replicate the glorious wistfulness underlying the quintessential shoegazing sound; they are helping to extend and refine it within the blueprint laid out by their antecedents.